Benedictine monasticism · visionary theology · 1098 – 1179
Hildegard of Bingen
Speak and write what you see and hear: the world is God’s living work.
Disibodenberg · Rupertsberg · Eibingen
Reading guides
A thread to guide your reading.
Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.
A place to begin
The ways of vision
Follow how the Scivias turns each vision into teaching, from the call of 1141 to the images of the cosmos and of the Church.
Scivias (Know the Ways)Going further
Nature and healing
Explore how the Physica classifies plants, stones and animals by their qualities and links knowledge of nature to the care of body and soul.
Physica (Book of Simple Medicine)Going further
The Soul and the Virtues
Read the Ordo Virtutum as a sung drama of choice, fall and return, in which music itself marks the difference between good and evil.
Ordo Virtutum (The Play of the Virtues)Continue
Linked thinkers
- Kindred questions